Transverse window shade



Feb. 10, 1925.

W. EUTIN TRANSVERSE WINDOW SHADE Filed Sept. 7, 1922 Patented Feb. lfl,

WILLIAM EUTIN, on cnrcaeo, ILLrivors rRAivsvERsE WINDOW SHADE. Y

Application filcd'septcmber 27,: 1922." Serial: No.*590,759.-

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Be it known that I, VILLIAM EUTIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Transverse Window Shades, of which the following is a full,

.clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to closures for windows, and particularly to a curtain for windows, which together with the usual shade avoids the use and expense of awnings.

The objects of my invention are to enable this substitute to be provided at a greatly decreased expense and to be installed quickly and easily by the users at a great saving of labor. My invention not only shuts out the sun but permits considerable ventilation. This I accomplish by the means hereinafter fully described and as'particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is an elevation of my invention looking at the window to which it is applied 5 from the inside of the room and with the cross-shade closed.

Figure 2 is a similar view of the crossshade opened.

Figure 3 is a transverse section taken on dotted line 3, 3, Figure 1.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the cross-shade and its casing removed from the window.

Figure 5 is a transverse section of the cross-shade and its casing drawn to a larger scale.

Figure 6 is a longitudinal section of one end of said cross-shade and its casing.

My invention consists of a transversely operated shade, which will be hereinafter more fully described, and which is applied to the inside of the lower part of a window. This window is, preferably, of the usual construction comprising a sill, A, sidetrames B, B, the top-frame or lintel C, and upper and lower sashes D and E, respectively. The window is also provided with the usual shade, F, hung on the inside at the top.

My improvement comprises a transverse shade, 10, which is wound on a spring-roller, 11, of the ordinary and well known construction. One end of the coil-spring 12, within the bore of the roller extends through the closed end of the said bore, and is seated iira bearing in the 'tadjacent end,- 13, ofa casing, 14, in which the roller is housed which prevents its rotating.

The casing is tubular, and it has a longitudinal slot 15, preferably extending its entire length, out through which the shade extends,- which latter has its free end provided with a metal border 16, that encloses it or said end is otherwise constructed to prevent its winding on the roller within said casing.

The casing is placed vertically against one side-frame B, and is secured thereto by means of bails 18, 18, pivotally connected to the side of the casing opposite the slit 15. These bails are caught over hooks, 19, 19, secured in and projecting from one sideframe in position to be engaged by the bails.

The border, 16, is provided with a series of, say, three apertures, 20, 20, therein, and these apertures are caught upon hooks or headed projections 21 that hold them fast against accidental detachment.

In operation, when it is desired, for instance, to keep the glare of the sun from the room, the shade F is drawn down the dis-- tance desired, or until, say, its lower edge is in about the same horizontal plane as the top edge of the transverse shade 10; the lower sash E is then raised to provide the desired ventilation, and then the casing is moved from the side-frame B, to which its border, 16, is attached by means of the engagement therewith to the hooks 19, to the opposite side-frame B, where the bails 18 are secured to said hooks 19. It is apparent that the bails of the casing of the trans verse-shade, 10, may be attached to hooks 19, and the border end of said shade be drawn over to and attached to the hooks 21, but such method of operating the shade, or the substitution of other means of attaching the ends of said shade to the side-frames of the window, I consider as coming Within the spirit of my invention.

What I claim as new is:

1. A transverse window shade comprising a metallic tubular casing closed at both ends, said casing having a longitudinal slot, a hollow roller rotatably mounted within said casing, a shade, one end of said shade being attached to said roller, the free end of said shade protruding beyond said casing through said slot, bails mounted on the exterior of said casing, the free end of said shade having apertures, whereby either the casing or the free end or the shade may be used as the fixed end of the shade as desired.

2. A transverse window shade comprising 5 a tubular casing closed at 'both ends, said casing having a longitudinal slot at one side thereof, a hollow roller mountedto rotate within said casing a retrieving spring disposed within said roller, a shade fixed to 10 said rol1er at one end, the free end of said shade projeizting through said slot, means: for fixing the free end of the shade on a window upright, and bails on the exterior of said casing.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my I5- hand and seal this 31st day of August, 1922.

WILLIAM 'EUTIN. Witnesses:

FRANK D. THOMAsON, VIOLET WARDELL. 

